Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

One major reason men remain trapped in the political systems of the world today is simply that they lack faith in the salvation of the Lord. They don’t actually believe that if they started walking right in the Lord again, that they might be delivered from the political bondage they have found themselves living in. They don’t believe that if they stopped walking the evil path, as they are commanded to do (Psa 1:1; Prov 4:14), that the Lord would be with them once again and guide them to the safety and security that they falsely seek in a State in their absence of faith in the Lord for divine liberation.

Politics and religion

In part due to a profound dilution of Christian concepts today that are taught by false prophets in the institutional church, many men today no longer take their professions of faith seriously. They do not even have some deep understanding of it that allows them to see that this faith must exclude their trust in human governments to save them. For them, “faith” is nothing much more than some “religious” belief or spiritual reassurance that “I know where I’m going when I die.” It has been stripped of all its meaning of having trust in the Lord’s salvation in this life, too.

Much unlike the early Christians, who had a literal Kingdom where they served and met each other’s needs and understood their professions of faith to sharply distinguish them from the political kingdoms of the world, those who call themselves Christians today largely lack any conception of how claiming to accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ necessitates that they repent of their worldly-statist ideology and commit themselves wholeheartedly to seeking another Kingdom that does not operation as the authoritarian kingdoms of the world do.

Under these now-vague concepts of faith, salvation, and the gospel, which were deliberately diluted and perverted by institutionalists of the “churches” and “governments” of the world who sought to either prop-up the kingdoms of man by omission (failing to teach the truth) or commission (outright teaching lies), Christians today have not seen that to profess to be of the faith is to make a political declaration that they serve a King and Kingdom that is at enmity with the kingdoms of the world, which vice versa, are at enmity with God and His Kingdom. This is why our land today is filled with statists who claim Christ as their King but do not really mean it or do as He says, and whose conception of “worship” is nothing more than “going to church” and leaving the weightier matters of providing protection and welfare to human civil governments, which they do not believe are their responsibility to uphold and maintain.

In the modern world of Christianity, where most professing Christians are, in fact, Romans and indistinguishable from the statists of the world, there is an illegitimate separation of “politics of religion” that allows men to think their worldly politics do not contradict their professions of faith in the other hand. Again, “religion” is nothing more to most men than a willingness to say, “I believe Jesus walked the earth and died for my sins so I can go to heaven when I die.” Those men who call themselves Christians today—they are largely Romans—thus fail to recognize that these terms are inherently political — that to confess them requires that one renounce their other gods, such as human rulers, and repent of their allegiances to worldly kingdoms that are not of the Lord. Though many call Jesus their “Lord and Savior,” they do not truly believe it. They do not regard Him as their actual Lord, set against all other lords, nor as their exclusive and only Savior, in contrast to trusting in human governments for their deliverance and freedom. They see “politics and religion” as distinct and separate realms: the “religious” on one hand, where men make vague professions of faith for securing their souls in the afterlife, and the “political” on the other, where they turn to human rulers for the “real world” matters of salvation on earth. In this paradigm, Jesus is reduced to a merely heavenly or spiritual figure who saves no one on earth. For earthly salvation, human rulers are supposedly required to raise up socialist militaries, extract trillions in taxes from the people, and hold the communists at bay through political might.

Who is your Savior?

As we see, when men confine the Lord’s salvation to a purely heavenly one, they do not turn to Him anymore in times of earthly trouble, save a few prayers in their personal lives that have nothing to do with being saved from statism. Unlike the men of the Bible (especially the psalmists), few men anymore pray to God to be delivered from the hands of our captors. Few men pray to God for restoration of a free society and for God to handle our enemies for us. Even worse, many still fail to identify this bondage, even as it is becoming more obvious than ever that the old lies of Egypt being a “free country” were nothing more than that: slogans generated by the state-builders themselves to not only keep the slaves unable to look down and recognize their chains, but to even call their bondage “freedom” and defend their masters as being the ones who have provided it. “The troops fight for our freedom.” Or, “X president saved us from Y president.”

When men lack faith in God and do not fear the Lord alone, they naturally start to fear men and place their faith in systems of human government to provide for their so-called freedom.” When men fail to believe that God would save them, they naturally begin regarding men (eg., presidents and congressmen) as their saviors. This is why all statism is founded on a lack of faith in God: it is to trust in false gods to provide your liberty and sustenance.

The essence of statism — the ideology that human civil government is “necessary” for social order — is necessarily the claim that if we trusted in God alone and lived freely in His anarchist society, that we would not be provided for and would instead be subject to poverty, war, lawlessness, injustices, crimes, and all other sorts of conjectural evils, all of which are true precisely of the statist societies of man. It is no wonder that most “Christians” today actually reject the Gospel of God’s Kingdom and fight against anarchism: they are Romans who have placed their faith and trust in human governments for their salvation.

How long will fools hate knowledge?

Yet it would seem harder than ever for anyone to look you square in the eyes and tell you that government keeps criminals away and anarchism would be a world where men are ruled by pedophiles who sacrifice babies to Satan. This is obviously the case of the sinful statist society. As this becomes more undeniable than ever, we can only hope and pray that the statist narrative that suggests these people would take over without human government becomes increasingly untenable. Clearly, they have taken over with it and because the political means were provided for them to do it. All erections of a State apparatus, no matter how much they may be said to be well-intentioned efforts to create a “limited government of the people,” will always provide the means for the most wicked men into society to rise to the top, use this monopoly on lawmaking to legalize their crimes, and thereforth facilitate and secure their crimes against humanity. They will provide the very means for evil men to take over that statist sinners, in their lack of faith in God, say would be available in an anarchist society.

Surely the truth of the matter — that statism represents everything the masses have thought to be true of the anarchist society — is becoming more obvious than ever? Surely it should be more difficult than ever for the statist idolaters of the world to reject the Christian Anarchist assertion that all the evils, corruption, disorder, and lawlessness typically ascribed to anarchism are actually embodied in their artificial statist societies? Surely it can be seen that these things are not just occurring in a statist society, which alone should be enough to make the causal connection, but that they are happening because men have gone this direction? Surely it should be more impossible than ever for a man to not see that all the evils of statism are but evidences for God? “Surely,” as Frederic Bastiat wrote in his magnum opus Economic Harmonies, “the inventors of artificial social order would give up their dull and stupid utopias if they did but know the beautiful harmonies of the dynamic social mechanism instituted by God.”

Ah! But perhaps we have more faith in men than they have in themselves! Perhaps we have been too hopeful that if we demonstrated to men that they are merely eating the fruit of their own ways today and are experiencing all the curses God said would come upon such a people who walked in the way of the world, that it would lead them to change their ways! Idolatry has such a grip on men that even in their destruction they refuse to repent.

Statism and sin 

In every way, the failures of man’s artificial political “orders” today are the signs and proofs that a people have turned away from God. Not only does the existence of human government drive men into further idolatry once these systems are raised up, but they also have their origins in sin. It is in the creation of human government that a people who rebel against God truly express themselves. It is never just that men who lack faith in God drift off into some benign, harmless, or non-idolatrous activities when they fail to trust in the Lord as their only Lawgiver, King, and Savior. It is never just that a people who abandon the Lord are now a people without an ideal guide but not necessarily on the road to hell. A lack of faith in God is marked by men making human rulers into all the things they should have found in God or would have found in Him if they knew Him.

Thus, it is impossible to agree that any statist is a person who knows the Lord as their savior. Their political ideology, which claims that men are in need of human rulers, is the very proof otherwise. Not only are States erected in a lack of faith in God, but statism is the foremost sign that a people do not know the Lord. Rebellion against God is characterized in man’s pursuit of human gods and human saviors, who always plunder and destroy all the societies that they are given control over by the sinners who raise them up into the offices of human civil government. Men never just rebel against God’s Kingdom and thenceforth neutrally stroll through life in this rebellion, without turning to other gods or without suffering any consequences for this fateful decision. All rebellion against God’s Kingdom is necessarily marked by a new pledge of allegiance to man’s kingdoms. That’s why human governments exist today: they are the very thing that results when a people turn away from furthering God’s Kingdom, and all men who support them have turned away from the Lord as their only King. Men never just leave behind God and frolic in the woods for the rest of time. The inevitable fruit of a people who turn away from God as their King and protector is to set up human kings, just as Israel had done in the Bible when they stopped trusting in God to do this for them (1 Samuel 8). 

All the systems of human government today are based in man’s lack of faith in God. Without believing that God would literally save those who seek His Kingdom on earth, trusting that all things will be added unto those who do, our people have remained trapped in worldly practices like voting and even running for office themselves, thinking that these are the only ways to affect change while on this earth. Voting, running for office, or making appeals to congressmen to pass legislation on your behalf, are the things men do when they don’t believe that God would take care of them if they just did as He said instead.

The adamant claims among many professed Christians that we must be involved in the political charades of our Egyptian captors, which they think is a great outward expression of their faith, is actually the main evidence of a people who have turned away from God and are trusting in men to save them. To appeal to human systems of government to order your society for you, “protect and serve” you, or establish law and justice in the land, is a thinking rooted in nothing less than a complete lack of faith in God. 

Faith and anarchy 

All those who fight against freedom today, which is what a defense of human rule entails, do so because they are men who can either be said to not know the Lord or even to downright hate Him and be quite self-conscious of their aims of overthrowing His natural order by inventing political systems of their own in defiance of His commands. (The latter is openly true of all the communists in the twentieth century, and of Marx himself who was well-aware of his service to Satan, but no less true of all those conservatives who fail to see that “constitutions” are covenants with false gods that are furthered in rebellion to God too). Human governments are what men create when they turn away from God, and they do this largely under the claim of the many and endless boogeymen who are thought to exist without human rulers standing over them, which is, of course, nothing but a failure to believe that God would look after them in a free society. Men abandon God’s anarchist society because they don’t believe that God will providentially provide for those who repent from the world and seek His Kingdom. Out of this lack of faith, they run to politicians to be their saviors, and they end up buying into the gospels of false gods that deliverance can come through the next president or congressman taking office — that the next Pharaoh will “save the country,” “fix our economy,” or “bring peace” to the land. 

Finding real faith again 

Biblical faith is much different from the lack of faith seen in worldly people today, i.e., in the statists who remain invested in the vain attempt of trying to make Egypt and her rulers serve them and pass laws in their favor. The men of the Bible listened to God’s instruction regardless of what they thought might result of it, trusting that God was not lying and that He would bless those who seek His ways. They obeyed God and left the results in His hands. They didn’t abandon God and start to reason, as so many professing Christians do today, that “we have to take part in politics while we’re on this earth or else we’re just too heavenly minded and of no earthly good.” No, they did what God said and trusted that God would provide for them. They didn’t forsake God’s instruction under the worldly fears that if they repented of worldly politics and put away all their false idols and false gods, that “evil heathens would take over our government.” No, they trusted that God would secure them if they did what He said. 

Knowing how hardheaded men are and just how much they have always stubbornly refused to repent, those prophets who God has called to preach a word to others have always been understandably reluctant to give this word. But they always did it anyway. This was the case when God sent Moses to preach His plans for liberation to the people who were living in the bondage of Egypt, who, much like Americans and the people of the world today, make all sorts of excuses for remaining in it.

“Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’ Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him” (Exodus 6:6-9).

Things intensified when God instructed Moses to bring this word to the ruling elites themselves.

“Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.’ But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, ‘If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?’ Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.”

The prophets with dedicated books were likewise often reluctant to take up the calling God was giving them. After all, where are any men today who are even willing to infiltrate their societies with the gospel of God’s Kingdom and call upon men to repent from their wicked ways? They are almost non-existent, save a remnant. Yet these men did it anyway, with the reassurance of the Lord that He was with them and would be with all of us if we took up that mission again today. As one prophet said,

“‘Ah, Lord GOD,’ I said, ‘I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!’ But the LORD told me: ‘Do not say, I am only a child. For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,’ declares the LORD” (Jeremiah 1:6-9).

What men are in need of today is that Biblical faith that if they began to obey the Lord again and turned from the kingdoms of world that they continue to claim are necessary to participate in, that God would take care of them in His anarchist society. The kind of men we are in need of today is not men who over analyze outcomes, as consequentialists who become so hung up on the details of things that they become political pragmatists and incrementalists, but men of principle who stick to the plan knowing that the Lord will provide for those who do as He says. This is a Biblical type of faith. As my Christian Anarchist brother Zachary Gomez writes in a prior article,

“Did Moses know how God would deliver the Israelites from Egypt? No. I’m sure it seemed crazy to think about how such longstanding bondage could be overturned. But he went and preached the gospel to them anyway and told Pharaoh what the Lord said to say to him. Did the Israelites know how they would be freed? No. But their responsibility was to believe and obey the instructions God gave them through His servants Moses and Aaron. We’re in worse bondage than they were and somehow most people are still under the delusion that they’re free. Maybe our bondage has to get even worse before people cry out to God in repentance for His salvation.”

As much as we may hope and pray it will come before then, it will probably not be before men fall on extremely hard times in America — famines, wars, lockdowns, labor camps, and an all around surveillance and police state — that they will learn the lessons of their sin and turn back to the Lord again, in the same way spoken of at the end of the Israelites’ exile in Babylon:

“Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:12-13). 

All those professing Christians who still believe that human rulers are going to save them — this is the case, to be sure, of anyone who believes in them whatsoever — should begin crying out to the Lord to teach them how to fear God alone again, because they have been consumed by the fear of men and, out of this fear, have trusted in men to protect and secure them. They should turn back to the Lord again and ask Him to change them, believing that it will happen. “I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears” (Psalm 34:4). 

All those men who, at the first sight or thought of real and imagined enemies, have turned to human government to “protect” and “save” them, only to find themselves in bondage due to this sin, have simply not trusted in the Lord to do this for them. God’s children know better than this. 

“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish” (Isaiah 41:10-11). 

A meaning of faith

Though the idea of “faith” today is typically understood to mean mere belief in God, its scriptural meaning is quite deeper. The transliteration of the word translated into faith is pistis, and carries with it a meaning not just of mere belief, but also of “trust, confidence, fidelity.” Fidelity means faithfulness, loyalty, and support, such as men either have for the Lord or for human rulers. The Hebrew word pistis, translated as faith, thus carries with it the idea of pledging an exclusive allegiance to a saving king, whether it be the Lord or the Caesars of the earth. One lexical summary even defines this faith as “reliance upon Christ for salvation.” When men trust in presidents and congressmen to liberate them or bring prosperity under their rule, they necessarily betray their faith in Jesus Christ to do this for those who seek His Kingdom, and they necessarily demonstrate a faith in human government — that is, not just a mere belief, but a trust that these systems can provide for them the things that they evidently do not believe God can.

It is no surprise that an ungodly society as ours is filled with men who pledge allegiance to the flags of human governments, wave the flags of these kingdoms in their false churches, and sing their national anthems: statism is what a people do when they have no faith in the Lord to save them. These are men who trust in human rulers, rather than give their trust, confidence, and fidelity to the Lord.

Though statist idolaters who take the Lord’s name in vain benefit from claiming that “you don’t know me” when we rebuke their sinful belief and faith in human government, it is not actually necessary get inside someone’s head to see if they really have faith in God or not. Again, this “faith” is not merely belief but is something that can be seen in the outward signs of a man, namely whether he trusts in the Lord Jesus to save him or the human governments of the world. A lack of faith in the Lord is demonstrated in a man’s belief and trust in human rulers; we don’t need to read their minds or know their hearts. As one article says,

The Greek word for faith (pistis) was not merely what you think nor believe, but it was the compelling conviction of the truth that controlled your actions, which means of course if your deeds, e.g. your fruits, are not what should be expected then that faith is not true faith. Pistis (Πίστις) did not just mean you believed something to be true, but it was the personification of good faith, trust and reliability. Greek rhetoric and Christian faith share the concepts of faith (pistis). So from the Greek point of view pistis or faith by its nature produced good or good works.”

We simply cannot say a man who trusts in human rulers to bring law, order, or protection to society is a man who has faith in God. His politics says otherwise. We are not told in scripture to merely take a man’s word for it that he “believes” or has “faith” in the Lord as his savior. We are told, rather, that we will know a man by his fruits (Matthew 7:15-20). Are your fruits raising up false gods into civil office? Then you simply have no faith in the Lord. We are not “judging your heart” to assert this; your fruits show it. The politics of a man either reveals Him to be an enemy of God or one of His children. Are you an anarchist who opposes human gods and serve the Lord alone? Then you know Him. Are you a statist who defends human kings? Then you’re lost in the world. These are the easy questions that tell us who people are, as much as idolatrous “Christians” wish to not be defined by their politics. Do you break God’s law by having other gods before Him? Or do you keep His commandments?

Even if we give an easy, more general definition of faith to mean a “conviction of the truth of something,” can we really say that a people truly believe in the Gospel-promise of salvation when they turn to human rulers to provide this for them? No, we cannot. It is in a man’s turn toward human government that his rejection the Lord as his King and Savior is most clearly revealed. How else would a man rebel against God and mark himself as one of His enemies? By saying he prefers tomatoes to potatoes? By saying he likes jazz music more than classical? These are matters that are irrelevant to lordship. Man’s rebellion against the Lord as their savior and lord is necessarily always a political one. It is the political rulers of the world who represent false lords and false saviors.

The salvation of the Lord

How is that men today got away from this Biblical faith that God will deliver His faithful servants out of Egypt? Many of the problems in Christianity today stem from the fact that all the common concepts that are in popular use among Christians — namely such crucial ones as salvation and the gospel — have been stripped of most of their meaning or even distorted entirely, such that they have become ineffective and impotent in the hands of those who use them. They have become mere buzzwords, often without any power or meaning in them anymore. We hear Christians everywhere talk about “preaching the gospel,” for instance, but it no longer carries a meaning of bringing a political message to a people that Jesus was a conquering King and has prepared for us another Kingdom, where men can actually find the freedom and prosperity that men vainly seek under human kings and human governments. “The gospel” as preached today no longer carries with it an inherently political message that necessitates that all men who accept it must repent of their statism and seek another Kingdom, one that is not of this world and its political systems. This is why people can say that “the gospel was preached today” and such and such event, without it even meaning that men were called to repent from their statist idolatry. This is why people think that politicians and “secretaries of war” can and have “preached the gospel,” when if a man really knew and believed in this Gospel, they wouldn’t still be politicians selling men on their political campaign messages, which are false gospels themselves.

All these dilutions of word meanings today have turned Christianity into nothing more than a vague profession of faith and loose claim that one “believes the gospel,” which to them has no political meaning whatsoever of another Kingdom, but is merely the belief that Jesus died, was buried, and rose from the grave. This is why professing Christians today have seen little to no conflict between their “faith” on one hand and their statism on the other, or between their contradictory ideas like “God and country”: they see “politics and religion” as two separate realms, where “religion” is merely one’s profession of “faith in Jesus” to look after their soul in their earthly departure to the heavens, while “politics” is the “real-world” matter pertaining to life on earth (which, evidently, has become more important to them than making the Lord their only King and savior, hence why they remain involved in Babylonian politics).

“Christian statist” is a contradiction

Under all the false paradigms that people operate under today, it hardly means anything anymore to say that one is a “Christian.” This brings no thoughts to anyone’s mind (as it should) that one is dealing with a man who has repented from the political ways of the world and is seeking the Kingdom of God. In the world of professing Christianity today, which has long forgotten that the early Christians had their own literal Kingdom within Roman territory for serving one another that refutes both the statism and churchianity of modern Christians, one finds that most every claim of being a Christian simply means a man who says he has “faith” but who still continues in the statist ways of the world. In a world of easy-believism today, where a claim of having a certain religion is no longer understood to be taking a certain political position on how the needy of society are to be provided for, where through voluntary charity or the socialist method of state violence, it hardly means anything at all for one to call themselves a “Christian” anymore. “Christianity” is thought to just be a private and personal “religious” matter that says nothing of what one’s politics must be. Hence why people believe they can be “Christian nationalists,” “Christian progressives,” or any other fallacious idea of a “Christian statist.”

Not surprisingly then, the popular idea of salvation today has nothing to do with being saved from human rulers on earth, but is an almost entirely otherworldly idea of being saved from hell and into heaven when they die. Hence why men turn to false gods (i.e., human rulers) to do their saving for them on earth. Hence why all the false converts of today are able to make some false distinction between “Jesus is my savior, but Trump is my president.” If God does not protect and save on earth, then the conclusions of faithless men (or rather, of men whose faith is misplaced) will always be that human rulers will be needed as their earthly saviors. This is why men need faith in the Lord’s salvation: so that they do not run down to Egypt and up to Assyria to be saved, so they do not find themselves supporting Pharaohs and his chariot operators and chanting “back the blue” like idolatrous fools who are only hallucinating their “freedom.”

This is how far-gone most professing Christians are today. They fail to see Jesus as their savior in the sense that they attribute to men! Which means they actually think the false gods of human government are more powerful than God. They have made an arbitrary separation between “the spiritual” and “the physical,” such that the Lord’s salvation is confined almost exclusively to the former “realm,” which they have neatly compartmentalized in order to make room for their worldly politics; for physical salvation, they think, men are needed to take political office and provide deliverance from “the democrats,” “the communists,” or “the criminals.”

Fighting past the enemies of God

One difficulty of teaching people the faith needed to get out of Egypt is that we are not only battling with the idolatry and errors that men create for themselves without any help, but also up against all the lies that institutions like the State and the Church (so-called) have beaten into them for as long as time. Not only are we up against the regular sin in men when we call them to repent from their statolatry, but we’re also up against all the ideas their false gods and false pastors engrained have pushed upon them just as soon as there were men to preach the truth.

The difficulty today is showing men the narrow road once again who have only ever known the wide road, which their false pastors never told them was the road of destruction. We are up against a people who not only need to be shown the right way again, but who have a lot of unlearning to do, too. This is why it might be easier to evangelize an unbelieving man on the street than a life-long churchian, who has bought into lies their whole lives and can’t bring themselves to repent now without suffering some embarrassment and shame that they aren’t willing to endure.

God against the State

This idea of salvation — of God smashing statists on behalf of those who seek His ways again — is so lost on professing Christians today most of them would lose their minds to hear it, not in the least because they are idolatrous false converts who have been caught trusting in these very men to save them! Yet this was the saving work of God in the Bible. God had removed the statist predators from plundering and enslaving his people.

“Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea” (Exodus 15:4).

It is this type of salvation — the divine deliverance from the rule by statists — that is repeatedly recalled throughout Scripture. God frees His people from state rulers, but punishes the enslavers.

“He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies” (Psalm 78:53).

The type of saving that God did all throughout the Bible was to physically liberate men from the hands of statists.

“He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert. He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained” (Psalm 106:9-11).

God is not just some savior in a meaningless spiritual sense, but a savior who smashes Egyptians and brings their repentant captives to a safe place.

“When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea. So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time” (Joshua 24:6-7).

Biblical writers in almost every book of the Bible it seems recalled the episode of God’s salvation from the Egyptian statists in the exodus.

“You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters” (Nehemiah 9:11).

Contrary to those statists today who think “God and country” or “God bless our military” are things that go together, our God smashes the soldiers, police officers, and chariots that these sinners trust in for their salvation — and praise the Lord for doing it.

“Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters, who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick” (Isaiah 43:16-17).

Contrary to the diluted and distorted teachings of modern Christians today that turn “salvation” into a purely heavenly hope and thus go on to trust in men to save them under this weakened teaching, scripture is permeated by the story of God’s salvation from statists. The remaining Books of Moses never stop talking about it (Deuteronomy 11:4). The story was recalled repeatedly by the psalmists (Psalm 77:16-20). The prophets remembered how God paved a way through the sea to save His people (Isaiah 51:10). The Apostle Paul even speaks of it as a baptism, ie., as coming out from one kingdom and into another (1 Corinthians 10:1-2). It is also remembered in the early Apostolic Age (Acts 7:36). We might even say that the mention of this story even helps to prove officially anonymous books to be canonical (Hebrews 11:29). The Song of Moses, which celebrates this episode of God’s state-smashing in Egypt, is even recalled in the last book of the Bible (Revelation 15:3).

The Lord’s salvation

As we see, if the concept of God’s salvation is confined to merely being saved into heaven when we die, as nearly every Christian today conceives of it, then we are certainly not getting the full picture of salvation. (One might even begin to wonder where this dilution began and just how much it was perpetrated by statists to keep men trusting in human government for their “earthly salvation,” which men suppose God doesn’t provide). As brother Zachary Gomez pointed out,

“The Greek word for salvation in Romans 1:16, for example, is sótéria, and it means a literal rescue from destruction, deliverance from harm into safety, or preservation of physical life. This word and its definition in the Greek means the same as the Hebrew word for ‘deliver’ (natsal) in Exodus 3:8.”

The type of salvation the Lord offers those who repent did not change from the days of Moses to the days of Jesus. Both of these words carry with them the idea of physical deliverance and divine liberation — specifically from the hands of Pharaohs and Egyptian systems, which was perhaps only more obviously the case with the Israelites in Egypt, given the well-known story of the exodus.

Sadly, and dare we say this, the popular idea of the Lord’s salvation today as one being being “saved from sin” has become an almost meaningless one, wholly detached from any concept of the Lord forgiving our sins and literally and physically saving those who repent from their Egyptian-statist ideology from the consequences of remaining in this sin. Yet, we are told today, that this is what “the Gospel” means: “Jesus saves us from our sins.”

No wonder why there are millions of people who never embraced this “gospel” as it is told by most Christians today: without it being understood as a political message of salvation unto another literal Kingdom, specifically as contrasted with the false gospels of the false gods who rule over worldly kingdoms, there has hardly been anything there for a hearer of this word to latch on to. Those who have embraced this have done so only in a loose sense, finding it sufficient enough to merely claim they “believe the gospel” without ever thinking of the implications of this profession in regards to the kingdoms of the world. Hence why they still believe in human government.

Yet, as pointed out above, the context of deliverance and salvation in Exodus 3:8 and other scriptures is clearly is one of physical liberation from slavery in Egypt. Though few modern Christians are aware of this, such words that are translated into “salvation” and “deliverance” are frequently used in regards to God rescuing His people from their enemies, from war, or from physical danger otherwise, and not just a people being “saved from sin,” as it is watered-down to today.

The evils of human government are intended by God to wake men up from their slumber and get them to finally see what a wicked road it is that they have walked down, to get them to see that statism is sin and makes a hellish landscape for men to live under. The “good” that human governments are to men is that, through their great and inevitable evils, such a people under their subjection will learn of their grave errors, repent for their idolatry, and cry out to the Lord to save them from these men upon their repentance. 

Political evils as a wake-up call 

As the human governments continue their inevitable decline, and as their evils continue to proliferate through the backward and corrupt societies they create, we can only hope and pray that men will start to learn the hard lessons of their sin: that it leads men into a bondage that they will need to repent from.

You would think it would be more evident than ever that none of this is anomalous or accidental, but that this is the way human civil government turns out every time a people walk down this sinful road and set up human rulers above themselves. There is no such thing as a system of human government that doesn’t go this way; the evils we see coming to the surface today represent its true self, the full-grown monster that plunders everything in its path. Notwithstanding your grandfather’s idolatrous explanation of how the constitution “could have” produced something else or how things “weren’t supposed to be this way,” everything we see today in human government is but it’s necessary conclusion, given that all these systems are set up in rebellion to God and are allowed to exist only as a judgment upon a people who now need to learn their lesson and pay the price for their idolatry.

The future we await now is to see what man’s tolerance is for the evils that have come upon him for his own sin, to see how far the destruction of society at the hands of statists must go until men realize their own complicity in these evils and turn back to the Lord as their only King. What will it take for people to realize they need salvation and that it will only occur when they repent and put their faith in God alone? Doubling down on doing the very things like voting and rooting for politicians and presidents that resulted in our bondage and oppression at the hands of pedophile politicians in the first place is foolish. This is the path of men who have no faith. 

It has always been a great irony in men that as their statist systems grow worse in their manifest evils, as they further begin to reveal their destruction of all social order, and as things become more obviously evil and sinister among the ruling class than ever before, that men often choose to turn back to the State to “order” their society for them, rather than see that the statist practices that their ideology has produced has been the problem all along and that these rulers even deliberately caused these problems as a tactic of driving faithless men back into their arms, knowing that they will start singing the praises of Pharaoh’s police officers the moment there is chaos and crime in the streets, or even when some protestors are said to be “causing terror” in them or even paid to be there as a pretext for a police state.

Contrary to the statists of the world who tell us that the social disorder caused by human government is somehow a cause for participating in these systems even further, men of God know that it is times of political calamity where the Lord and His salvation is needed more than ever and that men are more in need of repentance and returning to the true faith in the Lord than ever before. Men who know the Lord do not fear when things go south in a statist society, and not just because they know that human government has been at the source of these evils, but because their faith is in the Lord. Godly men would never be statists, because they know the words of their Bibles: “Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me” (Psalm 50:15). 

Trusting in God again

There is no excuse for any professing Christian to have made their appeals to Pharaohs to save them, liberate them, bring justice and law to their societies, or otherwise “fix” or “reform” their Egyptian systems. To turn to the State to provide for you is an express claim that you don’t believe God hears your voice, and that only legislators and presidents might. This is not what we learn in scripture.

“And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him” (1 John 5:14-15). 

How could a man claim to be a Christian and think that he must ask human rulers to “serve” him? Did Christ fail to teach that He would forget to answer our calls? No, He said, 

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened” (Matthew 7:7-8). 

It can only be the case that a man who prays to the false gods of the State to save him, as men do every time they enter a voting booth, is a faithless man who doesn’t know the Lord, who tells us “if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer” (Matthew 21:22). 

It is time for men to stop playing the whore with human government under the false belief that Babylonian politics is the tool God left us for being “of earthly good” while on this earth. This is a means only of doing evil and remaining in sin. We do not need a complete vision of how God will work deliver those who seek His Kingdom; the fact that seeking man’s kingdoms is the wide road of destruction should be enough to get off that road and onto the narrow one.

Are you ready to repent and seek the Kingdom of God? Or are you worried that if you don’t participate in the next election that you won’t be saved? In other words, is your faith in God or men?